Mark your calendar, and plan now to attend the Sharpsburg Heritage Festival, scheduled for September 13 and 14, 2008 (the Battle Anniversary weekend), and the next SHAF Workday on the battlefield, Saturday, November 1st, 2008.
Advance notice for the Heritage Festival (via Herald-Mail):
The Sharpsburg Heritage Festival will take place Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 13 and 14. The venues will include the fire hall/Emergency Services Parking Lot, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Christ Reformed United Church of Christ and a few individually requested backyards.
Plans are being made for extra parking with a shuttle service. Activities will include two days of live music, demonstrations of Civil War-era dances, historic home tours, an agricultural display area, historic craft demonstrations, history displays and lectures by experts in local history.
For further information or to get involved, please call festival chairman Paige Phifer at 301-432-4631 or publicity chairman Delancy Catlett at 301-223-8386.